Analysis Of Karl Marx's Objectification Of Labor

Karl Marx describes the product of labor as not being strictly confined to the byproduct from the labor, but it is also the labor itself. The objectification of both the labor and the end product takes on a powerful role as it is viewed as “something alien, as a power independent of the producer.” In a sense, the labor that is put towards the commodity becomes something that is almost tangible and as a result, can be obtained “only with the greatest effort and with the most irregular interruptions.” Meaning with the worker’s realization of this objectification, the workers lose a part of themselves as they view the labor and the product as an “external existence” capable of confronting or controlling them; this is comparable to religion as man gives more “into God, the less he retains in himself”; From the comparison that Marx makes between the idea of god and the objectification of labor, it is evident there is a relationship whereas men continue to spend more time producing the commodity, it is actually revered and the humans that …show more content…
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